Japan logged two new warmth data in a single day Tuesday with the mercury hitting 41.6 levels Celsius (106.88 levels Fahrenheit) after which 41.8C (107.24 levels Fahrenheit), the climate workplace stated. It warned that temperatures could rise even increased.
Temperatures the world over have soared lately as local weather change creates ever extra erratic climate patterns, and Japan isn’t any exception.
The scorching temperatures within the metropolis of Isesaki on Tuesday surpassed the earlier mark seen within the western Hyogo area of 41.2 Celsius (106.16 Fahrenheit) solely final week.
Folks cross a Tokyo avenue on a scorching sizzling day, August 4, 2025.
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Final summer season was hottest on file, equaling ranges seen in 2023 and was adopted by the warmest autumn since recordkeeping started 126 years in the past.
Final week in vacationer hotspot Kyoto, the mercury hit 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), the primary time any of Japan’s remark factors — the oldest opened in 1880, the latest in 2002 — had seen such a excessive, authorities stated.
Specialists warn Japan’s beloved cherry timber are blooming earlier as a result of hotter local weather — or generally not absolutely blossoming — as a result of autumns and winters aren’t chilly sufficient to set off flowering.
The well-known snowcap of Mount Fuji was absent for the longest recorded interval final yr, not showing till early November, in contrast with the common of early October.
July was additionally the most popular since data started in 1898, the climate company stated Friday, with the common month-to-month temperature 2.89 CELSIUS (37 Fahrenheit) above the 1991-2020 common.
South Korea additionally noticed its second-hottest July, with a median temperature of 27.1 Celsius (80.7 Fahrenheit), in accordance the meteorological workplace, which has been gathering such knowledge since 1973.
Warmth haze is seen within the background whereas pedestrians cross a railroad monitor on a blazing sizzling day in Tokyo, August 5, 2025.
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The most well liked July on file in South Korea was in 1994, when the common temperature reached 27.7 levels Celsius (81.86 Fahrenheit).
In Japan, some dams and paddies nationwide are experiencing water shortages, with farmers complaining that the scorching warmth mixed with the dearth of rain is slowing rice cultivation.
Precipitation in July was low over broad areas of Japan, with northern areas going through the Sea of Japan experiencing file low rainfall, the workplace added.
The wet season ended about three weeks sooner than traditional in western areas of Japan, one other file.
Each summer season, Japanese officers urge the general public to hunt shelter in air-conditioned rooms to keep away from heatstroke.
The aged in Japan — which has the world’s second-oldest inhabitants after Monaco — are notably in danger.
This yr, western Europe noticed its hottest June on file, as excessive temperatures blasted the area in punishing back-to-back heatwaves, in keeping with the EU local weather monitor Copernicus.
Harmful climate stretched into July, with separate analysis estimating that local weather change made the temperature as much as 4 levels Celsius (39.2 Fahrenheit) hotter, pushing the thermometer into lethal territory for hundreds of weak individuals and drastically worsening the projected demise toll.
Thousands and thousands have been uncovered to excessive warmth stress as every day common temperatures in western Europe climbed to ranges not often seen earlier than — and by no means so early in summer season.
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